Javier Sicilia Quotes & Sayings

Hope is something that is demanded of us; it is not, then, a mere reasoned calculation of our chances. Nor is it merely the bubbling up of a sanguine temperament; if it is demanded of us, it lies not in the temperament but in the will... Hoping for what? For delivereance from persecution, for immunity from plague, pestilence, and famine...? No, for the grace of persevering in his Christian profession, and for the consequent achievement of a happy immortality. Strictly speaking, then, the highest exercise of hope, supernaturally speaking, is to hope for perseverance and for Heaven when it looks, when it feels, as if you were going to lose both one and the other. — Ronald Knox

The difference between self love and being in love with yourself is that one results in giving and the other in taking. — Jeffrey Fry

I look back with a mix of emotions: sadness for the people who are gone, nostalgia for times that have passed, but immense gratitude for the wonderful opportunities that came my way. — Dick Van Patten

The Dutch were among the earliest adopters of a new technology - the printed book - and — Russell Shorto

Monolingualism is the illiteracy of the 21st century! — Greg Roberts

A matter, as the famous book intoned, of finding the shade of the parachute that best complemented you. But really: With no parachute at all you'd hit the pavement so hard it probably wouldn't even hurt, and you'd unleash a whole new color palate-bone, blood, muscle-in the process. — Elisa Albert

Let no man of us budge one step, and let slaveholders come to beat us from our country. America is more our country, than it is the whites-we have enriched it with our blood and tears. The greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears. — David Walker

One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome. — Willa Cather

She discussed her unhappiness with Mary Pereira, but the ayah only told her that there was no happiness to be gained from "the mens"; they made pickles together as they talked, and Amina stirred her disappointments into a hot lime chutney which never failed to bring tears to the eyes. — Salman Rushdie

Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself. — Alistair Cooke

When I look back I can tell that after I started having a family, I certainly wanted to make games that could be played with all the family members. — Shigeru Miyamoto

Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art. — Gerhard Richter

Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth. — Terry McMillan

Faith has no use for the sword, because those who ride with the sword to defend their faith ride with the devil by their side. — Stephen R. Harrison